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[–]jordood 7 points8 points ago

This is the thing about reposts - I have never seen this before, so to me, it's fucking awesome.

[–]halasjackson 5 points6 points ago

What are the white specks?

[–]SIVILIZATIOUS[S] 4 points5 points ago

They are super cells that are enriched with lightning. Again, there are so many of them, because it is a very long exposure.

[–]sonar_un 2 points3 points ago

Looks like lightning to me.

[–]chawk 0 points1 point ago

Yeah this is new to me and it is awesome.

[–]nakedprimate 1 point2 points ago

Each star is a different color. Is that from processing or is that actually how it looks up there in space? Is the color of the starlight dependent on distance and/or age ie. the more distant stars are red-shifted?

[–]OrangeredStilton 1 point2 points ago

Dependent on age and size, roughly. Thus the talk you'll hear of red giants, blue stars, etc.

Nothing in this galaxy is far enough away to redshift due to Hubble expansion, nor moving fast enough to redshift by plain velocity, so it's all about the temperature.

[–]Sharlinator 0 points1 point ago

They also look like that on Earth with a long enough exposure. Human night vision is almost completely monochromatic, so with naked eye most stars just look white. There are notable exceptions, for instance Betelgeuse (a red giant) is markedly reddish.

[–]Joenobody211 0 points1 point ago

it makes me think of super high speed internet

[–]trismiles 0 points1 point ago

That looks amazing